Scale Vehicle Prototyping - Part 1 - Reference
When planning and designing a figure it’s best to work what props would go with it, to increase it’s appeal. My first production figure will be Lupic, an 11 year old robot girl. The prop which is going with this figure is a futuristic bike. As reference I’m assembling a Tamiya 1/12th Scale Honda NR .
This bike has just what I’m looking for, including enclosed exhausts rather than exposed, a sturdy frame, a single seat cushion and a V4 engine.
My bike will come with two wheel options - either 2 spokes or a filled wheel unit.
I’m designing the futuristic bike in 3D before modelling it in clay. The 3D designs will provide exact measurements and templates to work off.
Studying these part sheets is valuable in terms of seeing how a professional modelling company goes about creating cost effective pieces. Having bulky or solid resin parts increases the cost substantially. Hollowed parts brings down the final sales price, making the model more affordable to collectors and hobbyists.
I normally take a day or two to assemble a model to completion, but this time I’ll take longer as each part will be examined for detail, attachment to other parts, the ability or viability of merging parts together, how the resulting moulds will behave, in terms of reproduction, etcetra.
This reference model is also good for scaling purposes, although my futuristic bike is to be a 1/8 while this is a 1/12.
More updates on this later.